Happy Wednesday, friends! How’s everyone doing this week? Are you all reading anything interesting? I totally went off my reading schedule to fit a new ARC in. I’ll be sharing that today and also a new recipe from the Thyroid Healing book by Anthony Williams that I talked about a few weeks ago. I hope you enjoy!
Hello, everyone! Hope you’re all doing well this week. I was recently tagged for the “Amazon’s 100 Books to Read in a Lifetime” Tag by my sweet friend, Noriko@Diary of a Bookfiend. I’d like to say thank you for tagging me for this. Please be sure to check out her blog if you haven’t already for awesome bookish posts and amazing book reviews!
This is certainly a fun tag to see what you have and haven’t read. I’ve seen a lot of these lists online including Goodreads and there are so many I have to catch up on!
This meme was created by Drew @ The Tattooed Book Geek. You pick a song that you really like and share it on Monday. I love this meme and look forward to sharing a new song every week! Hope you enjoy. 🖤
I was chatting with my friend Nel about some of the music we grew up with and some of the artists our parents listened to, when Phil Collins came up. I ❤ Phil Collins. I started thinking about some of my favorite songs and ended up going with “Take Me Home.” It’s hard to believe this song came out when I was just 9 years old, which explains why it’s so nostalgic to me. Here it is…
Phil Collins
“Take Me Home”
The song isn’t about a man returning home as many think, but the lyrics actually refer to a patient in a mental institution. Apparently, Phil Collins got his inspiration from the novel One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest.
Lyrics:
Take that look of worry I’m an ordinary man They don’t tell me nothing So I find out what I can There’s a fire that’s been burning Right outside my door I can’t see but I feel it And it helps to keep me warm So I, I don’t mind No I, I don’t mind
Seems so long I’ve been waiting Still don’t know what for There’s no point escaping I don’t worry anymore I can’t come out to find you I don’t like to go outside They can’t turn off my feelings Like they’re turning off a light But I, I don’t mind No I, I don’t mind Oh I, I don’t mind No I, I don’t mind
So take, take me home ‘Cause I don’t remember Take, take me home ‘Cause I don’t remember Take, take me home Oh Lord, ’cause I’ve been a prisoner all my life And I can say to you
Take that look of worry, mine’s an ordinary life Working when it’s daylight And sleeping when it’s night I’ve got no far horizons And I wish upon a star They don’t think that I listen Oh but I know who they are And I, I don’t mind No I, I don’t mind Oh I, I don’t mind No I, I don’t mind
So take, take me home ‘Cause I don’t remember Take, take me home ‘Cause I don’t remember Take, take me home ‘Cause I don’t remember Take, take me home, oh lord Well I’ve been a prisoner all my life And I can say to you
But I don’t remember Take, take me home ‘Cause I don’t remember Take, take me home…
I have a lot of old vintage books and one of my plans when I first started blogging was to do a post every week or so that shared one of my cherished vintage books. Then I thought that maybe there might be other book bloggers out there that have some vintage books, heirlooms, or maybe some old books from childhood that they might want to share. I decided to start a weekly meme titled ‘Shabby Sunday’ for those who would like to participate and share some of their old vintage books. Do you have some shabby books you’d like to share? Please feel free to participate. Feel free to use the picture I’ve provided if you’d like to. If you decide to do this meme, please consider linking back to me so that I can see the book you’re sharing.
Blurb: Late one winter night a little girl and her father go owling. The trees stand still as statues and the world is silent as a dream. Whoo-whoo-whoo, the father calls to the mysterious nighttime bird.
But there is no answer.
Wordlessly the two companions walk along, for when you go owling you don’t need words. You don’t need anything but hope. Sometimes there isn’t an owl, but sometimes there is.
Distinguished author Jane Yolen has created a gentle, poetic story that lovingly depicts the special companionship of a young child and her father as well as humankind’s close relationship to the natural world. Wonderfully complemented by award-winning John Schoenherr’s soft, exquisite watercolor illustrations, this is a verbal and visual treasure, perfect for reading aloud and sharing at bedtime.
My Thoughts:
I chose this book because it’s one of my personal favorites from when I was a child and now its cherished by my children as well.
Owl Moon is a striking story that takes you on a journey through the winter woods in search of owls. The little child has been waiting to go owling with Pa for a very long time. The story rather reads like poetry.
“Our feet crunched over the crisp snow and little gray footprints followed us. Pa made a long shadow, but mine was short and round. I had to run after him every now and then to keep up, and my short, round, shadow bumped after me.”
John Schoenherr’s illustrated imagery paints the perfect winter impression and this is a ideal book for bedtime that highlights the companionship between parent and child.
Our copy is an old Scholastic paperback edition from 1988. It’s in fairly good shape with clean pages.
